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Council adopts committee report on LA Bridges, agrees to evaluation and continued funding pending review
Summary
After extensive public testimony from program staff, police and schools, the City Council adopted a committee report that keeps LA Bridges funding in place while directing fiscal and programmatic reviews, evaluations, and administrative reforms to be completed before a reconsideration date.
The Los Angeles City Council adopted a committee report on the LA Bridges anti-gang and after-school collaboratives after hours of public testimony from program staff, police officers, educators and residents. The motion, advanced by the committee chaired by Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas and amended with a set of friendly amendments, passed on a recorded vote.
The committee report directs a fiscal review, administrative reforms at the Department of Community Development (CDD), and an outcomes evaluation to be completed and reconsidered by the council in six months (the committee's timeline as discussed). The council approved the report as amended after debate about funding continuity, evaluation timing and program oversight.
Supporters of LA Bridges told the council the program…
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